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In this tutorial, we will learn about how to delete a bucket in S3 using java language.

Project Setup

Create a simple maven project in your favorite IDE and add below mentioned dependency in your pom.xml file.

<dependency>
  <groupId>com.amazonaws</groupId>
  <artifactId>aws-java-sdk-s3</artifactId>
  <version>1.11.533</version>
</dependency>

For latest version of aws library, check this page.

S3 Connection

Create an object of AmazonS3 ( com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3 ) class for sending a client request to S3. To get instance of this class, we will use AmazonS3ClientBuilder builder class. It requires three important parameters :- 

1. Region :- It is a region where S3 table will be stored.
2. ACCESS_KEY :- It is a access key for using S3. You can generate this key, using aws management console.
3. SECRET_KEY :- It is a secret key of above mentioned access key.

Here is a code example :-

AmazonS3 s3 = AmazonS3ClientBuilder.standard()
				.withRegion(Regions.AP_SOUTH_1)
				.withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider
                                                    (new BasicAWSCredentials("ACCESS_KEY","SECRET_KEY")))
				.build();

Delete Bucket

Amazon S3 buckets can only be deleted when they are empty, So in order to delete a bucket, we first should delete all objects and their version stored inside a bucket. Steps to create and send delete bucket request to Amazon S3 are as follows:-

1. Get list of objects stored inside a given bucket by executing the listObjects method on AmazonS3 object.
2. Recursively delete all the objects stored inside a given bucket.
3. Get list of versions of objects stored inside a given bucket by executing the listVersions method on AmazonS3 object.
4. Recursively delete all the version of objects stored inside a given bucket.
5. Invoke the deleteBucket method on AmazonS3 object by passing a given bucket name as an argument.

Example

import com.amazonaws.AmazonServiceException;
import com.amazonaws.auth.AWSStaticCredentialsProvider;
import com.amazonaws.auth.BasicAWSCredentials;
import com.amazonaws.regions.Regions;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.AmazonS3ClientBuilder;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.ListVersionsRequest;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.ObjectListing;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3ObjectSummary;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.S3VersionSummary;
import com.amazonaws.services.s3.model.VersionListing;

public class DeleteBucket {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		/* Create S3 Client Object */
		AmazonS3 s3 = AmazonS3ClientBuilder
				.standard()
				.withRegion(Regions.AP_SOUTH_1)
				.withCredentials(new AWSStaticCredentialsProvider(
                                      new BasicAWSCredentials("ACCESS_KEY","SECRET_KEY")))
				.build();
		
		try {	
			/* Get list of objects in a given bucket */
			ObjectListing objects = s3.listObjects("lb-aws-learning");
			
			/* Recursively delete all the objects inside given bucket */
			if(objects != null && objects.getObjectSummaries() != null) {				
				while (true) {					
					for(S3ObjectSummary summary : objects.getObjectSummaries()) {
						s3.deleteObject("lb-aws-learning", summary.getKey());
					}
					
					if (objects.isTruncated()) {
						objects = s3.listNextBatchOfObjects(objects);
	                } else {
	                    break;
	                }					
				}
			}
			
			/* Get list of versions in a given bucket */
			VersionListing versions = s3.listVersions(new ListVersionsRequest().withBucketName("lb-aws-learning"));
            
			/* Recursively delete all the versions inside given bucket */
			if(versions != null && versions.getVersionSummaries() != null) {				
				while (true) {					
					for(S3VersionSummary summary : versions.getVersionSummaries()) {
						s3.deleteObject("lb-aws-learning", summary.getKey());
					}
					
					if (versions.isTruncated()) {
						versions = s3.listNextBatchOfVersions(versions);
	                } else {
	                    break;
	                }					
				}
			}

			/* Send Delete Bucket Request */
            s3.deleteBucket("lb-aws-learning");
            
        } catch (AmazonServiceException e) {
        	
            System.out.println(e.getErrorMessage());
            
        } finally {
        	
        	if(s3 != null) {
        		s3.shutdown();
        	}        	
        }
	}
}

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3. How to use aws s3 sync command
4. How to copy object from one S3 bucket to another using Java

References :-

1. DeleteBucketRequest Java Docs
2. Bucket Java Docs

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